Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has announced a realignment of the Trade and Reference Group’s sales & marketing division. Laurie Brown, previously SVP of Sales, has been named Senior Vice President, Sales & Marketing, reporting to Gary Gentel. SVP, Director of Marketing Bridget Marmion, who has been at HMH for eleven years, will be leaving after company.John Heilemann and Mark Halperin‘s 2012 presidential campaign book will be published the following year by Penguin Press, which Crain’s reports paid about $5 million (after HarperCollins, which published Game Change earlier this year, dropped out of the bidding earlier this week.)Crain’s New York Former Poet […]
Agency Model Means Ingram Can't Wholesale eBooks Until New Agreements Are In Place
Another implication of the new agency model for selling ebooks hit home yesterday as Ingram Digital sent a letter from general manager Andrew Weinstein to approximately 65 retailers the company serves. He alerted them to “the very real possibility that Ingram will have to discontinue the availability of ebook titles from all publishers wishing to do business under an agency model…on or before April 1.” He indicated that “the publishers opting to do business in an agency model have left us little choice,” adding that “it has become clear that not only will Ingram need to agree to do business […]
A Preview of Apple's Bestseller Pricing?, and more eNews
AppAdvice blogger Alexander Vaughn purportedly got a look at “a not-so-NDA-complying preview” of the iBookstore in which 27 of the top 32 selling books – and all of the top 10 books – are priced at $9.99. The highest priced book, Jackie Collins’ Poor Little Bitch Girl (St. Martin’s), is priced at $12.99, which is in keeping with CEO John Sargent’s prior comments about how Macmillan titles will be priced.AppAdvice In other e-news, Skiff CEO Gil Fuchsberg announced during a session at CTIA that Random House and S&S are among the content partners for Hearst’s e-reading platform.moconews.net Rich Futures’ Clive […]
People and Announcements
Langenscheidt Publishing Group President Marc Jennings has resigned from the company, effective immediately. He is replaced by John Muchnicki, who is being tasked with streamlining Langenscheidt’s stateside operation and positioning the company for new growth going forward. Sonya Safro has joined Twelve as an Associate Publicist. Previously she was at Knopf, where she was an Associate Publicist. Harold McGraw, Jr., who began at McGraw-Hill as a sales rep in 1947 and was elected president in 1974 and CEO a year later, died at his home in Darien, Ct. at the age of 92.NYT obit Ai Ogawa, the National Book Award […]
Random House Stays Off iPad, For Now; Kobo Launches Dedicated e-Reader; and More eNews
Random House remains the most conspicuously absent publisher from the iPad, and ceo Markus Dohle indicates to the FT he “did not exclude the possibility of reaching a deal” before April 3, though it remains unlikely. Dohle said Apple’s proposition means “changes, in particular for our stakeholders,” indicating that further discussions with authors and agents are needed. In restating the obvious, they write he is “treading carefully, as Apple’s pricing regime could erode established publishing practices.” Which is the whole point. In early February, Random House president Madeline McIntosh told booksellers about a series of concerns that publishers “have no […]
People and Announcements
Barnes & Noble has named Dan Gilbert as Executive Vice President, Operations and Customer Service, responsible for managing the company’s warehousing and fulfillment to its retail and digital operations. Previously he was Vice President of Customer Operations for Cisco Systems. Liz Querio has joined Sourcebooks as a marketing manager. She was most recently was most recently a senior marketing specialist with OfficeMax. Stephanie O’Cain has been promoted to associate marketing manager at Little, Brown Books for Young Readers.NBN International will move to a new 80,000 square feet facility in Plymouth, England later this summer, a move made necessary by sales […]